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Kent State can empathize with Va. Tech.(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)(Viewpoint essay)

Crain's Cleveland Business, April, 2007 by Tucker, Brian

Byline: Brian Tucker I can't seem to get that haunting guitar lick from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's song, "Ohio,'' out of my mind after last week's slaughter of students and faculty at Virginia Tech. I was a freshman at Kent State University, and was at the Ashtabula Regional Campus, on May 4, 1970, when National Guardsmen called in to Kent to control Vietnam War protesters shot and killed four students and wounded nine others.

It was a defining moment for America; many historians believe it was the final unraveling of this nation's support for a war halfway across the globe. That day forever changed my university, which remembers that tragic day with an annual symposium on political change and constructive conflict that brings nationally known...

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